On Aug 7, 2006, at 4:30 AM, John Dallaway wrote:
I need a script to install an RPM package presented on the standard input. I can _query_ a package as follows: cat mypackage.rpm | rpm -qpl /dev/stdin
Yep. Using "-" instead of "/dev/stdin" should work too.
But attempts to _install_ a package in this way fail silently.
Yep. During install, the pkg file is reopened for hysterical anaconda reasons, and
so stdin won't "work".
Are there any workarounds (other than saving the stream to a temporary file)?
Nope. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
